Sparrow

With a lot of wit, restrained humor and atmospheric music, Hong Kong's top director Johnnie To has staged a tricky crook story as a comedy: Kei, Bo, Mac and Sak are professional pickpockets. All four fall under the spell of a mysterious young woman. She wants to persuade the men to steal an important document for her. The little hoodlums have no idea that it is in the possession of a powerful boss with a criminal past, and promptly get into trouble with him. In the end, it comes to a big showdown with razor blades at night and in the rain: Kei's gang of thieves against the boss and his men. The cultically revered cinema magician Johnnie To enriched the 58th BERLINALE with perhaps its most beautiful film with this upbeat story about a gang of pickpockets!